A Cure for What Ails You: Dr. Feelgood's Quick Fix Elixir
September - October 2017
Curated by Ola Radeckaand Kaitlin Kehnemuyi
Designed by Renata Gaui and Angela Perrone
In this new Cafe Collection we aim to explore American healthcare. With the current push to change America’s healthcare system, the factions/fractions of issues contained in this topic are being exposed. Is healthcare a right or a privilege? Understanding the complexities, contradictions, and iniquities is vital. Throw in some classism, racism, sexism, stigma, and a morally questionable history, it makes for a great family dinner conversation!
The Books
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- White coat tales : medicine's heroes, heritage and misadventures by Robert B. Taylor
- Epileptic by David B.
- Unterzakhn by Leela Corman
- Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney
- Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Frank Stack (Illustrator)
- Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies
- Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
- The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the digital revolution will create better health care by Eric Topol
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform by Richard (Buz) Cooper, MD
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
- Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
- Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
- An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
- In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donovan
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
- The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid
- America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healtcare System by Steven Brill
- Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
- No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers
The Display
